To create this beautiful and terrifying beast Eric used foam fabrication, cast hardware, digital sculpting, laser cutting, and 3D printing. His costume is a great example of combining multiple disciplines and techniques to bring a character to life.

Thanks again to all of you who submitted so many outstanding costumes!

THE REST OF THE TOP 10 (IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER)

HI, folks! This is actually my very first post in the school, and I would like to start by showing off the BioShock Big Daddy costume I made here in Brasilia, Brasil, in the span of 14 days, from beginning to end. The drill rotates and the lights on the dome are changeable from yellow to red and vice versa. In it, I am about 2.25 meters tall, it´s about seven foot six, roughly.

Hi guys! I am thrilled to see all the fantastic work here, so inspiring! I am a costume construction student in Wellington, New Zealand and this is my graduation project. She is a Lord of Change, modelled after an illustration from Warhammer - The Age of Reckoning. The mask is fully articulated as you can see in the two short videos. I loved working on this project, it was fantastic to be able to immerse myself so completely into the recreation of tiny details and trying to figure out which materials to use, especially since we had to stick to a very tight budget. We were allowed to spend NZ$ 200 on store bought materials and were given an allowance of NZ$80 on stock we had in the workroom (mostly fasteners, interfacing...) so all in all NZ$280 for this baby and I am happy that I could pull it of! Big challenge with a big reward! Looking forward to see more great work here!!

I took on a large Halloween project and this was my first time using L200 foam, creating latex masks/molds, electronics with voice changers/speakers, making a vacu-form mold and custom painting. I grew up loving Halloween and each year I expand my knowledge building unique costumes. I went to the extreme this year to see what I could accomplish. Hope you enjoy.

Hello! First time posting here. This is my costume that I made using Ted Haines tutorials. I loved watching him make the giant foam T-Rrex and learning the technique he used. I got the monster building bug and just had to build this creature! This is a Goren from World of Warcraft concept.

Hello Trick or Treaters! I'm a sculptor and prop maker from Montreal and I love nothing more than making cool Halloween costumes! When this year my 5 year old daughter told me she wanted to be a robot (a long lasting obsession of hers) I was not going to disappoint her! A brief search on the internet quickly informed me that most parent's idea of a robot costume is a square box wrapped in tin foil, so I decided to create something that was as far away as possible from that.

This is an original alien sculpted then cast in silicone and painted. The costume elements are also original with a latex covering and painted. Visually this was inspired by various dinosaur, lizard, turtle and fish reference animals.

This is my Gears Of War Locust. Everything was made by me except the gloves which were made by Niko from Faceoff. In the suit I'm about 6'5", normally I'm 5'8. The armor is all EVA foam as well. The face was sculpted and cast in latex with a Flex Foam-iT! 3 backing.

Happy Halloween! These are pictures from the costume of my Chaos Chosen. Everything is designed and build by myself (except the chainmail). The armor is made out of kevlar reinforced plastic. The weapon is foam with latex and LED lights inside. Hope you like it! We must use the Chaos inside of us to create things out of the order!

Hey everyone my name is Steven K Smith (aka SKS Props) and I would love to show you all my DEAD SPACE Level 3 armor set. I absolutely love the first DEAD SPACE and knew that Isaac must be brought to life. This costume was constructed out of resin, styrene, wonderflex , EVA foam, faux leather, cloth, blood, tears, and super glue. The entire costume took approx. 300 hours and 3 months to complete, including his iconic weapon the Plasma Cutter. I am also big into giving back tips and tricks to the community. So you can see my entire build log for this costume on the Instructables website here: http://www.instructables.com/id/DEAD-SPACE-Isaac-Clarke-Level-3-Suit-Complete-Cosp/

Anyways, here's my creation, it was a challenge (Ted made it look so easy) but I'm so pleased with the results! It has a simple cable mechanism in the fingers to let me move them from the inside, Uv reactive silicone slime with some UV LEDS mounted in the inside of the mouth. the only part that I did not make myself is that I commissioned a friend to digitally paint the eyes, I got a print of that to mount inside the plastic globes. Enjoy!

thank you so much SWSCA for providing such an excellent service to help my monster building dream come true, I would have never been able to make such a huge project without the knowledge I got through your courses!video here:

This shot was taken in my studio against a backdrop. To get the correct color on the LEDs I purchased white and had to sand and hand paint them aqua. The helmet is hand sculpted and resin cast. 2 AA battery packs run 25 painted LEDs in the helmet. The back "rig" is heat formed styrene and houses an additional 9 Leds.

Resin Cast raw helmet

Test Fit before the LEDs were completed

This is my favorite part of the costume. I had the hardest time trying to find the correct knobs for the rig. So I was like what do they look like........Reese's Peanut Butter Cups!!!!! I froze one molded it and resin cast the final version.

Fitting the rib and arm armor before final paint is applied

Plus Isaacs main weapon the Plasma Cutter. This weapons handle was a Nerf Maverick but everything else was fabricated out of Styrene, found objects, and resin. Front half can be removed to replace the battery pack for the 3 front LEDs

Once everything was complete my buddy Damien Zimmerman (who was on last seasons Face Off), Ryan Brocksmith and I setup a killer photoshoot with Kevin Smith. Showcasing my Level 3 suit and their custom made Necromorphs.

Thanks for looking!

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Chaos Chosenhttp://forums.stanwinstonschool.com/discussion/2024/chaos-chosen
Sat, 03 Oct 2015 06:52:31 +0000Halloween Costume ContestMartin Quarz2024@/discussionsThese are pictures from the costume of my Chaos Chosen.Everything is designed and build by myselfe (except the chainmail).The armor is made out of kevlar reinforced plastic. The weapon is foam with Latex and LED Lights inside.

Hope you like it!

We must use the Chaos inside of us to create thinks out of the order! Yours Martin

I'm a sculptor and prop maker from Montreal and I love nothing more than making cool Halloween costumes! When this year my 5 year old daughter told me she wanted to be a robot (a long lasting obsession of hers) I was not going to disappoint her! A brief search on the internet quickly informed me that most parents idea of a robot costume is a square box wrapped in tin foil, so I decided to create something that was as far away as possible from that.

I gave myself some inspirational direction: nothing could be cooler than a mix of "Aliens" power-loader mixed up with a Miyazaki styled robot, right? I wanted the giant arm and claw to be puppeteered by my daughter and made sure she could open and close the claw with a trigger.

After making a mannequin from an outline of her in 1.5 inch isolation foam to build the costume over, the challenge was to make things as lightweight as possible (the whole costume weights only several pounds), and also enable a warm getup underneath as in Montreal, Halloween can be quite cold! The arms are made of pink isolation foam, wrapped in Corroplast and a very thin plastic sheeting on top to look smooth and give it some resistance. The hand is made of eva foam, as is the torso. The foam is glued on top of a front and back shape of Corroplast to minimize flexibility and help it keep it's shape. Both arms have a free joint at the shoulder and both elbows bend naturally. The boots and kneepads are all eva foam. It was the first time I worked with eva foam and it was a blast!

A robot wouldn't be complete without some lighting, so I used blue Leds for the eyes and 2 red flashing leds inside the heart to simulate the beating. The heart was sculpted and then vacuformed to be opaque once painted, but still transparent enough to let light from the leds bleed out.

All the detailing is part craft foam, various bits and parts, about 300 different sized googly eyes (5 sizes in all) for the rivets and the whole thing was sealed and weathered to look old and rusty with acrylics over a battered metal rustoleum base. And that's it! Happy Halloween!

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The Alien Controlling a Robothttp://forums.stanwinstonschool.com/discussion/2117/the-alien-controlling-a-robot
Mon, 02 Nov 2015 02:51:45 +0000Halloween Costume ContestKyle Tetz2117@/discussionsI took on a large Halloween project and this was my first time using L200 foam, creating latex masks/molds, electronics with voice changers/speakers, making a vacu-form mold and custom painting. I grew up loving Halloween and each year expand my knowledge building unique costumes. I went to the extreme this year to see what I could accomplish. Hope you enjoy. Mattress form for basic mold and shape. Tie downs to hold structure to main body. L200 foam and EVA foam cut and glued to shape. Tinfoil and tape was used to get the shapes prior to cutting foam.

Plastidip Sprayed the surface prior to paint. Schematics for the plastic window mold. After a plywood frame was built this high density foam was cut to fit and sand to rounded shape of the plywood frame.Hard surface and sanded smooth ready to be vacu-formed. Alien head and body was sculpted and molds were made. Slip latex for the alien body and foam latex for the head fitted for my face. A microphone was installed into the aliens chin and hooked up to voice changer kits and lights that were hobby kits from FRYs electronics. Sunglasses for alien eyes with holes drilled around the periphery for ventilation. Perfect fit! Painted with prosaide and paint. Alien seat made from EVA foam. Microphone installed in chin. Test run #1 Fingers were able to open and close using 2 pairs of extendable clasps. Painted to look like worn metal. Spray paint on rag and random patterns. EL Lights added to arms. Front lights connected to voice changer so they would flash as I talked. Vents were added with fans installed on the inside to keep me cool. Juice tops were placed to connect cables.Spinning red light in the back to look like an energy source. Battle scar markings were burned into foam with soldering iron. Black lights used in cockpit and glow paint for veins. Mustard was put on before spray paint to make worn looking symbols. After the paint dried I chipped off the mustard.Standing approximately 7.5 ft tall and 5 ft wide with speakers modified voice. Shoes were screwed into wood stilts and spray insulation foam to get bottom shape then EVA foam over the legs. Open glass dome look with this night. Hunting laser lights added to illuminate the ground mounted on arms. Check out these short videos posted on you tube. Also check out other costumes posted "The Satyr" and "The Genie"This was my biggest project yet taking approximately 300 hours to complete.

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Female Lord of Change, Disciple of Tzeentchhttp://forums.stanwinstonschool.com/discussion/2033/female-lord-of-change-disciple-of-tzeentch
Sat, 10 Oct 2015 07:56:03 +0000Halloween Costume ContestJohanna Otto2033@/discussions we were allowed to spend NZ$ 200 on store bought materials and where given an allowance of NZ$80 on stock we had in the workroom (mostly fasteners, interfacing...) so all in all NZ$280 for this baby and I am happy that I could pull it of! Big challenge with a big reward! Looking forward to see more great work here!!

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Bioshock Big Daddyhttp://forums.stanwinstonschool.com/discussion/2142/bioshock-big-daddy
Mon, 02 Nov 2015 21:26:05 +0000Halloween Costume ContestHermes Barreto neto2142@/discussionsThis is actually my very first post in the school, and I would like to start by showing off the Bioshock Big Daddy costume I made here in Brasilia, Brasil, in the span of 14 days, from beginning to end. I am not sure whether I will be able to post it here, but the drill rotates and the lights on the dome are changeable from yellow to red and vice versa. In it, I am about 2,25 meters tall, it´s about seven foot six, roughly, and I would like to offer it to you as an entrant in this contest.

Without further ado, the pictures -

I thought that this art better encapsulated what I searched for in the character, the grime, the dirtiness, but above all the Steampunk Aesthetic it has, anyway, with the addition of the head crest, reminiscent of the Nautilus. So, after studying the character a lot, I came up with this -

Again, the drill rotates (when the battery cooperates, even quite fast), the lights are interchangeable, and in order to keep all proportions, the shoes are lifted by about 12 cm ( 5 inches) and the other arm, the one that doesn´t carry the drill, is also an extension, and the hand is moveable via cables inside. It is mainly made out of EVA foam, then isolated and painted. I haven´t isolated it with wood glue, instead, I opted for motor engines glue . It is a glue that holds the gasket joints together, so I bought a lot of it and painted the whole suit. The drill is very lightweight, for it is a sheet of plastic rolled and the treads are just EVA.

I will try to enclose a video here, but I am not sure it will work out. I hope you guys like it!

Thank you all , and I am extremely glad to be here!

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Armored Kantushttp://forums.stanwinstonschool.com/discussion/2082/armored-kantus
Mon, 26 Oct 2015 17:13:14 +0000Halloween Costume ContestEric Jarman2082@/discussionsAll components of this costume were fabricated from L200, EVA, and craftfoam with the exception of the teeth and the cast bolt hardware. The teeth and inner mouth were digitally sculpted, printed, and then processed/painted. If time permitted they would have been molded and cast in dental acrylic to give that slight translucency that teeth need to look natural.

The cordage was all hand stitched and proved to be a gigantic pain in the butt. The stitching alone (had I known how much work it would be) would have been enough to dissuade me from tackling this project.

There are roughly 300 spines in 5 various sizes that run from the headpiece down along the shoulders and back. A template pattern was laser cut, and each plate had to be individually sanded and heat formed before fixturing.

The full build can be found sprinkled throughout my facebook page (JarmanProps) and in a build write-up on my site (once I find the time to sit down and work on documentation)

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*** The Halloween Costume Contest Has Ended ***http://forums.stanwinstonschool.com/discussion/2157/the-halloween-costume-contest-has-ended
Tue, 03 Nov 2015 08:03:54 +0000Halloween Costume ContestChris Ellerby2157@/discussionsMuch like Halloween our Costume Contest has come to an end. While you are cleaning up what's left of the jack-o'-lantern and finishing off that bowl of candy we'll be hard at work judging all your amazing entries.

The winning entry will be announced on November 9th, so stay tuned!

Thank you all for sharing your costume creations with the community here at the Stan Winston School of Character Arts Forums.

/Chris

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Francis Ford Coppola's "Dracula" costume (Old Dracula)http://forums.stanwinstonschool.com/discussion/2090/francis-ford-coppolas-dracula-costume-old-dracula
Fri, 30 Oct 2015 14:05:06 +0000Halloween Costume ContestBegona F. martin2090@/discussionsCostume entirely made by me, 2015. Including hand-embroidery, pattern, garments, wig, ring, and of course, prosthetics. It's an 8 pieces makeup, made with platsil gel 10. Neck (3 pieces), cheeks and forehead are flat mould prosthetics, lips (2 pieces) are a 3 pieces mould. I also made 2 flat moulds for the ear lobes, but I didn't have time to apply them for the contest (everything took about 6-7 hours to apply, including the wig, applied with prosaide). All prosthetics were applied with Telesis 5. The nose is mine .

Here there are a few pictures taken by several photographers (before and during the actual competition), and also the performance I made.

PS: Photos taken by CoolADN, Florian Fromentin, Sergio Corral and Madaj Production .PS2: Construction details on this link, if you need them! http://on.fb.me/1REYyfp]]>
Here's My 2 entries, Mrs Doubtfire and Seymour w/Audrey 2 costumeshttp://forums.stanwinstonschool.com/discussion/2148/heres-my-2-entries-mrs-doubtfire-and-seymour-w-audrey-2-costumes
Tue, 03 Nov 2015 01:17:28 +0000Halloween Costume ContestRobert Haddy2148@/discussions (note: This is always a fun time when drunk on Halloween.) Admittedly the fat suit may be a little TOO fat ... lol watch the video to the end for a fun shot of that ...;) but for the budget I had to work with I was pleased with the end product and it works for Halloween and cosplay stuff. Painted with Shadow airbrush by paasche and using european body art, Skin illustrator, and Krylon colors. Heres some Mrs. Doubtfire antics on video too... https://www.facebook.com/RJHaddy/videos/896103613758944/

For Seymour I made the Audrey 2 using L-200, a lot of high end greenery and a real clay pot. I cut a hole in the pot with a dremmel, and I got the jacket and clothes from the local good will and took the jacket and hat to a local embroidery shop to have them embroidered with "Mushnick's Skid Row Floral" The false hand holding the pot is made from a cast of my own right hand and poured in Smooth-on's Dragon skin. I added bandaids to the fingers to make it look like poor Seymour has just had enough feeing little two-ie. As a bonus I added a Vfx sound bite kit to the pot so she could scare more people by actually talking. Watch the video here...

It was a fun outfit for Halloween and cosplay, although this is just one of her 5 different sizes I have built all by myself for the stage show, this one is really the only one you can get away with walking around with all night. The puppet is painted using the European body art colors and Shadow airbrush once again. Thanks for looking and doing this great contest for your fans!!! Everyone here did some amazing work lots of passion in this holiday season!!! It all looks awesome!!!

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Space Monkeyshttp://forums.stanwinstonschool.com/discussion/2124/space-monkeys
Mon, 02 Nov 2015 08:03:55 +0000Halloween Costume ContestMike Chapman2124@/discussions]]>
My Dragon experiment for Halloween.http://forums.stanwinstonschool.com/discussion/2145/my-dragon-experiment-for-halloween
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An original design for Loki´s Female Armorhttp://forums.stanwinstonschool.com/discussion/2143/an-original-design-for-loki-s-female-armor
Mon, 02 Nov 2015 21:48:09 +0000Halloween Costume ContestHermes Barreto neto2143@/discussionsThe interesting thing is that I developed a new technique to make these drawings in the armor. It is very much not time consuming, and I mainly used fire to make them. So the shape of the animals in the plates was done in roughly 10 minutes each, then it was a matter of painting. I isolated the plates with Styrofoam glue, spray painted gold then removed the paint via a hot wire in the parts I didn´t want the gold to be. The skin of the armor is meant to resemble a snake, so I got synthetic leather with the cobra texture and she painted it green in a two-tone color scheme. Loki´s staff was made by me as well, using Sintra blades and a resin egg I poured in a Chocolate Egg Kinder Surprise plastic shell for the Mind Infinity Stone Casing The cape is about 12 square meters of velvet.

While I know most of you don´t know Portuguese, here is a video of her presentation with it. To me, it looks more impressive in motion -